Though I may not be able to in the present instance to mark the limit at which further improvement will stop, I can very easily mention a point at wh… - Thomas Robert Malthus

The employment of the poor in roads and public works, and a tendency among landlords and persons of property to build, to improve and beautify their grounds, and to employ workmen and menial servants, are the means most within our power and most directly calculated to remedy the evils arising from that disturbance in the balance of produce and consumption.

In general it may be said that demand is quite as necessary to the increase of capital as the increase of capital is to demand.

It accords with the most liberal spirit of philosophy to suppose that not a stone can fall, or a plant rise, without the immediate agency of divine power.